^^ Friday, I think they learned not to ask Casey too many probing questions, nor to expect many answers. The Anthonys were afraid that Casey would leave and take Caylee with her, like she ultimately and tragically did do.
I can go with $4-5 K. Up to $10K counting theft from other people or in other ways. But, I know the Ants were not credit-worthy enough for Casey to perpetuate CC theft off them in huge amounts.
That was my point- the Anthony parents' credit rating had to have been very poor, just from looking at their jobs, job histories, what George is said to have blown, and his poor work history for many years in FL.
JMO.
Bolded by me.
We're saying the same thing LOL. The part I just can't accept is related to this: When Casey stole the $4,000 she was supposed to deposit to the A's bank, Cindy & George were in pretty dire financial straights IIRC, and that badly-needed $4,000 was probably equal to about
2 of their mortgage payments!
I agree that George and Cindy may have feared Casey would take Caylee away if they pressed Casey about the money, but they also had a equally big, more immediate and frightening problem: They had to keep a roof over their heads (including Caylee's) food on the table for her.
Now, referring to the part of your post I bolded, wouldn't those problems have forced them to get extremely tough and demand answers from Casey as to where the money had been spent, where the remainder of the money was, etc.? Surely they would have wanted/needed to try to return whatever items she bought!?
$4,000 is a huge amount of money to run through in a month for someone like Casey, who had no expenses except gasoline and a cell phone bill! Cindy and George would have known that better than anyone, and they'd have gotten answers out of her, if for no other reason than to try to recover and return some of the items she'd bought with their badly needed money.
I simply cannot believe for one minute that Cindy just shrugged the matter of the $4,000 theft off and let it drop. For one thing, she and George couldn't
afford to do that, no matter how browbeaten they were by Casey.
My theory is that Casey handed Cindy some sort of answer and that, whatever it was, Cindy does NOT want it revealed to LE. Maybe Casey told Cindy she stole the money to repay an embezzlement or theft so she wouldn't get arrested? Or maybe she said she blew it on Gambling? Drugs? A loan shark? An abortion and medical complications?
I don't know, and I don't think George knows what explanation Casey gave Cindy, either. The reason I believe all this is because George seemed genuinely forthcoming during his interview with LE when he brought up the theft, but he offered no explanation about what Casey used the money for and he gave no indication of a family blowup over the stolen money. I think Cindy handled the issue with Casey herself and kept him in the dark.
I also thought it was very odd that, during that interview with George, LE never asked the obvious pertinent questions: "What did Casey do with that $4,000? Was there a fight between Casey and Cindy when you discovered the theft?" Etc. I wonder if LE has or had learned these answers.
Cindy's silence on this entire subject reminds me a lot of her attitude about the delightful afternoon and evening of June 15th which she publicly claims included nothing more than a lovely family swim and ended with her tucking her girls into bed. (An attempted strangulation of Casey and loud screaming battle heard by the neighbors, nothwithstanding.)
